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tanically but its mammals are poorly known. On the basis of the 

 scant data that is available it seems unlike!}'' that this area can be 

 referred to the Abyssinian Highland District. 



Certain areas of endemism are demonstrable. Perhaps the most 

 striking is the Jebel Marra in Darfur Province where a large propor- 

 tion of the resident mammals have differentiated at least subspecifi- 

 cally. Other places such as Mount Baginzi, the Nuba Mountains, 

 and the Imatong Moim tains also show a rather high degree of en- 

 demism. The mammalian fauna of the last-named region (with its 



Figure 1, — Principal collecting localities in the Anglo-Egyptian Sudan. (Scale: 1 incli = 250 



miles.) 



